MU.  HANDLEY'8  AMENDMENT. 


1  Si:€.  (>.  Able  bodied  persons  over  the  age  of  forty-five 

2  years  may  voliiiitocr  in  the  Confederate  service  for  three 

o  years  or  the  war,  and  in  any  arm  of  the  service  such  vo- 

4  lunteer  may  select  ;  each   person  so  volunteering  to  re- 

6  port  himself  to  the  officer  having  command   of  the  pio- 

6  per  camp  of  instruction  in   his    State,  and  when  assem- 

.  bled   at  such   camp  in  sufficient  mimbers  to  constitute 

if 

8  companies,  squadrons,  battalions  or  regiments,  the  com- 

9  mandant  of  such  camp  of  instruction  shall  forthwith  pro- 

10  ceed  to  form  such  volunteers  in  companies,  squadrons, 

11  battalions,  or  regiments,  giving  to  the  volunteers  of  each 

12  the  right  to   elect  the   officers  thereof  according  to  the 

13  laws  of  the   proper  State,   and   after  such   election  has 

14  taken   place   in   manner  aforesaid,   the  officer  aforesaid 

15  shall,  without  delay,  report  the  result  thereof  to  the  Ad- 

16  jutaut  General  of  the  Confederate  States,  and  he  shall, 

1 7  as  soon  as  may  be  thereafter,  proceed  to  commission  such 


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18  officers  to  serve   in  the  arm  selected.     After  such  com- 

19  panics,  squadrons,  battalions,  or  regiments  shall  be  thus 

20  organized   and   officered,   the  same  shall  continue  at  the 

21  school  of  instruction  so   assembled,  until  called  into  ac- 

22  tual  service  by  the  President  for  general  or  local  de- 

23  fence.     Volunteers  under  this  section  shall  be  entitled  to 

24  the  same  bounty   as  authorized  by  former  acts,  and  be 

25  paid  in  like  manner. 


